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

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.

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.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Events are transient, feelings are momentary, perception is optional and internalization is life long.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)

It's pretty difficult to promote something the week after Christmas and the week before New Year's.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.