Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.
Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
If you would be good, first believe you are bad.
During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders
I think everybody comes to the table with a different point of view and a different need. . . A lot of Beverly Lewis' material revolves around secrets and bringing those secrets to light. So, you know, there's always that theme, that. . . we're as sick as our secrets and once they're revealed we can be set free from them. So, that's definitely a theme that resonates.