As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

You mainly feel the way you think.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

Stop shoulding on yourself

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain Remove some barrier from the road Or brighten some one's heavy load.

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind.

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Everybody says not enough people vote. Now, I don't know nothing, but after the midterms, pretty obvious to me, that too many people vote.