For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

performance is an act of faith.