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.

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.

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.

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.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

Those who fixate on what could have been are bound to miss what already is.

Custom is the law of fools.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.