Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

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

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

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.