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

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

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

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.

You are my best present and ultimate purpose of life.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Go and nose out the next piece of shit... as one said in the trade. If nothing else was available, you could run an article on the latest miracle diet. That always worked.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

A poem round and perfect as a star.

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

Without me, Scrubs would be worse than the holocaust. But with me in it, it's turned into the lolocaust.