Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

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.

Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Is it true cats wont stay in a house when it's haunted?

We must be true to each other.

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

My love admits no qualifying dross