We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.
Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.
I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.
If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'
It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.
Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.
People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
'Happiness' is a pointless goal.
You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.
You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.
It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
