I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

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.

Make the world a better place by resolving to do something good for someone different every day.

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.

Choose faith to live life rather than fear.

Think about it. If I say to you, "Oh! I wrote a 500-page book on that!" Don’t your eyebrows go up?

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Knowledge is the death of research.