In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

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

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

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