“A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.”

“Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.”

“The values, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the values of charity and compassion, based upon the old familiar fact, lately rediscovered by modern psychiatry - the fact that, whatever their mental and physical diversity, love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; and finally the values of intelligence, without which love is impotent and freedom unattainable.”

“You do not base your beliefthat Jesus is the Saviour from sinupon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved;but you base it upon the Word of the living God;and there you stand.”

“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

“HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ”