Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

[Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.