The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.

[Sternberg returned to his original goal of majoring in psychology, and turned out to be very competent in the higher-level courses.] I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology,