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

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.