Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.

And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.

Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

A friend is one who says, I've time, when others have to rush.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.