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The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. -Saadi, poet (1184-1291)

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy ? I don't know and I don't care. -William Safire

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and author (1934-1996)

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. -Francoise Sagan

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass themselves by without wondering. St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian)

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -Saint Augustine

The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance. -St. Augustine (354-430)

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ~ St. Basil ~ (329-379, Bishop of Caesarea)

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision. -St. Bernard

Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944
French Aviator, Writer

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -Antoine De Saint-Exupery [Wind, Sand, Stars]

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery

He who would travel happily must travel light. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

The deeds you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today. -St. Francis of Assisi

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Saint Francis of Assisi

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, literary critic (1804-1869)

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. -J.D. Salinger

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. -Lord Salisbury, British prime minister(1830-1903)

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. Herbert Samuel

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. -Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer (1878-1967)

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.- Carl Sandburg

There is only one child in the world and that child's name is ALL children.- Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first a dream. -Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg, poet (1878-1967)

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. -Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer (1878-1967)

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. -George Santayana

There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting that the text. The world is one of these books. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the
unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. -Richard Ben Sapir

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart. -Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (1957- )

Every man in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as someone else. -William Saroyan, writer (1908-1981)

Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980 French philosopher, novelist and playwright

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. -Marilyn vos Savant

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. -the character Annie Savoy in the film Bull Durham

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion designer (1890-1973)

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. -Johan Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet and dramatist (1759-1805)

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, / or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, / so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. -Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet and dramatist (1759-1805)

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. -Edwin Schlossberg, designer (1945- )

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes -- ah, that is where the art resides. -Artur Schnabel, pianist (1882-1951)

Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.-Caroline Schoeder

Every person takes the limits for their own field of vision for the limits of the world. -Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

Compassion is the basis of morality. -Arnold Schopenhauer, philosopher(1788-1860)

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. -Olive Schreiner, author (1855-1920)

The Net is a dangerous place to send naive students. You may as well send them to the laundromat to learn quantum physics. They might get lucky but they are more likely to return as members of a new church. -Vernon Schryiver

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. -Robert H. Schuller

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. -H. Robert Schuller

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. -Robert H. Schuller

The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon. -Charles Schulz, cartoonist (1922-2000)

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first. -E.F. Schumacher

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.-Carl Schurz -(1829-1906, German-born American Senator)

When we have the courage to speak out -- to break our silence -- we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities to speak up and voice their views. -Sharon Schuster

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. - Charles Schwab

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1947-, Austrian-born American Actor, Author, Director, Restaurateur

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. -Charles Schulz, cartoonist (1922-2000)

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. -Carl Schurz, general and politician (1829-1906)

Albert Schweitzer - (1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Philosopher)

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -Walter Scott (1771-1832)

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. -Zachary Scott

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. -Florida Scott-Maxwell

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. -Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1900-1971)

The phrase "working mother" is redundant. -Jane Sellman

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher (B.C. 3-65 A.D.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Robert Service, writer (1874-1958)

Adults are obsolete children. -Dr. Seuss, humorist, illustrator, and author (1904-1991)

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. -Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (1904-1991)

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham. -Anna Sewell [Black Beauty]

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. -Anna Sewell, writer (1820-1878)

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. -George Sewell

William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616)

I wish no living thing to suffer pain. -Shelley (1792-1822)

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. -Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (1792-1822)

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author (1797-1851)

I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundred fold (words of Frankenstein monster). -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author
(1797-1851)

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. -William Tecumseh Sherman, Union General in the American Civil War (1820-1891)

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. -Florence Scovel Shinn

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. -Jean Sibelius

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political. -Ignazio Silone, author (1900-1978)

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -Spencer Silver, the originator of Post-it Notepads

I will not play at tug o' war. / I'd rather play at hug o' war, / Where everyone hugs instead of tugs. -Shel Silverstein, writer (1930-1999)

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -Herbert Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair, novelist and reformer (1878-1968)

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. -Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, Nobel laureate, (1904-1991)

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. -Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, Nobel laureate (1904-1991)

If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. -Jerome Singer

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. -Peter Singer [Animal Liberation]

Even for our enemies in misery--there should be tears in our eyes. -Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)

Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk. -Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)

Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want to have what you don't need. -Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)

I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em. -Red Skelton, comedian(1913-1997)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -B.F. Skinner

Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. -Betty Smith

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.--Lillian Smith

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers. -Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)

Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant. --Malcolm Smith

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. -Duke Snider

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. -C .P. Snow, scientist and write (1905-1980)

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength. -Ralph Sockman

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. - Ralf W. Sockman

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates 469-399 B.C.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. -Socrates (469?-399 B.C.)

Let him that would move the world, first move himself. -Socrates

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. -Socrates, philosopher (469?-399 BCE)

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. -Socrates, philosopher (469?-399 BCE)

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. -Socrates, philosopher (469?-399 BCE)

Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. -Solon, statesman (c. 638-c558 BCE)

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918- )

It's a universal law -- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.--*August 1914* Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918- )

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. -Susan Sontag, author and critic (1933-2004)

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust. -Sophocles, Electra

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? - Sophocles , BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. -Sophocles, (495-405 BCE)

It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. -Robert Southey (1774-1843)

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. -Nicholas Sparks, author (1965- )

Reading is seeing by proxy. -Herbert Spencer, philosopher (1820-1903)

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas. -Dale Spender, writer (1943- )

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. -Edmund Spenser, poet (1552-1599)

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. -Spinoza

If a triangle could speak, it would say, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. -Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (1632-1677)

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts. -Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (1632-1677)

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand. -Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (1632-1677)

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.-Benedict de Spinoza

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. -Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author (1903-1998)

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree. -Lysander Spooner, lawyer (1808-1887)

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. -Madame de Stael, writer (1766-1817)

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. -Madame De Stael, writer (1766-1817)

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. -Philip Dormer Stanhope, statesman and writer (1694-1773)

Experience is the comb life gives you after you lose your hair. -Judith Stearn

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. -Richard Steele, author and editor (1672-1729)

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. -Gertrude Stein

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. -Gertrude B. Stein

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. -Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.-Gertrude Stein

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.--John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist, editor (1934- )

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. -Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist, editor (1934)

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. -Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist, editor (1934- )

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. -Stendal (Marie Henri Beyle), novelist (1783-1842)

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. -Gladys Browyn Stern, writer (1890-1973)

Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. -Bill Stern, sports announcer (1907-1971)

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.- Laurence Sterne

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. -Adlai Stevenson

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.-Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. -Adlai Stevenson, statesman (1900-1965)

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.-Adlai Stevenson, statesman (1900-1965)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. -Cecile Stewart

Illegitimati non carborundum. (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) Joseph W. Stilwell

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. -Benjamin Stolberg

Making the decision to have a child is momentous -- it is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. -Elizabeth Stone

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain. -Mildred Stouven

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe 1811-1896

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then--for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. -J. Michael Straczynski

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. -Henry G. Strauss

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. -Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. -Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works. -William Strong

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++ programming language (1950- )

Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. -William Strunk, Jr., professor and author (1869-1946)

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few. (Suzuki, 1970)

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. -Alice M. Swaim

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. -Stephen Swid, executive

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. -Jonathan Swift

An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do." -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

May you live all the days of your life. -Jonathan Swift

I never wonder at seeing men evil. I often wonder at seeing them not ashamed.- Jonathan Swift

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. - Thomas Szasz 1920-, American Psychiatrist

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Szasz, Thomas

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -Thomas Szasz

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -Thomas Szasz

A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. -Thomas Szasz

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; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (1920- )

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (1920- )