People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.