Alfred Adler

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.