The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

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

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

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

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.

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.

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.