A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

No one is coming to save you.

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

Sometimes pain is easier to bear alone than happiness.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.