"Insight is the booby prize of life."

"There are only three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are."

"The human capacity for denial and rationalization is always shocking, but never surprising."

"Intuition is usually the first word, and is sometimes the last word, but should never be the only word."

"Nowadays, the absence of catastrophic news is great news."

"Don’t worry, there will always be something to worry about."

"When a psychoanalyst takes on the role of a blank screen, all he really learns is how the patient responds to people …"

"When it’s bad, I get depressed; when it’s good, I get nervous."

"Social psychology is the scientific study of the obvious, which invariably leads to conflicting results."

"Facts are like kryptonite to teenagers."