Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.

Predition is risky, especially of the future.

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.