Top 5 Thomas A. Harris Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “I am a person. You are a person. Without you I am not a person, for only through you is language made possible and only through language is thought made possible, and only through thought is humanness made possible. You have made me important. Therefore, I am important and you are important. If I devalue you, I devalue myself. This is the rationale of the position I’M OK – YOU’RE OK.”

— Thomas A. Harris

2. “Time is what we want most, but what alas! we use worst. – William Penn.”

— Thomas A. Harris

3. “This is the essence of all games. Games are a way of using time for people who cannot bear the stroking starvation of withdrawal and yet whose NOT OK position makes the ultimate form of relatedness, intimacy, impossible.”

— Thomas A. Harris

4. “Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The.”

— Thomas A. Harris

5. “Three things make people want to change. One is that they hurt sufficiently.”

— Thomas A. Harris

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