If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!