Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.