when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.