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.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

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

After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.