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.

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none of the government's business what ideas a man puts into his mind; likewise, it should be none of its business what drugs he puts into his body.

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.