Alfred Adler

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

Don’t go through life, GROW through life.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

I think I am basically a happy person.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen. So I’m always game for a good joke, and I’m not so formal in this role. There’s very little that we can’t do that people wouldn’t appreciate.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.