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.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

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

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot.