Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

A goal without a date is just a dream.

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

Life makes us suffer at times if we cruise through such moments and look forward to the light the day brings, that darkness that has crippled our mind can be fought and it can be defeated.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.

I'm too disorganized.