Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

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.

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.

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.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

Not everyone can decode a dream! Dreamers are those abled minds that can read the intent of the dream in terms of energy, frequency & vibration...!

Pride goes before destruction.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

My vision is to inspire others to find purpose and happiness.

Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.