"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a huma..."
"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."
"Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are traumatized, our entire organism is geared up to find the source of that threat and to do something about it."
"Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident."
"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."
"The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids."
"A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it."
"Education, like neurosis, begins at home."
"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."
"People often say, 'I don't need recognition,' and the truth is they are right. We don't need it. But like healthy food and exercise, life is a whole lot better with it."
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
"We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before."
"There's no such thing as multitasking."
"People have this capacity within them to set the world straight."
"The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought."
"Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation."
"Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful."
"The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned."
"I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult."
"People's lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can't be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class."
"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
"When you are continuing to be in debt or are going deeper into it, every time a creditor calls, it rubs your face not only in how vulnerable you are, but that people are out to get something from you that you don't have to give."
"The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory."
"Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate."
"I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process."
