The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

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.

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.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

Even when I'm trying to be straightforward and honest and my comments are innocent, inevitably they get turned into something sort of salacious.

It is not raining to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills.