The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon...

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human...

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think,...

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Life is to entered upon with courage.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him...

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to...

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.