That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.

Elusive success is not the same as failure.

Life is too short to eat food that doesn't taste good.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

Milan. What a beautiful place to die.

The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.