The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.

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 stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.