The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

A goal without a date is just a dream.

The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole

Faith is where they learn about their God

Changing one's personality is as simple as stopping the earth's rotation

Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only drunks and menstruating women can manage.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I think one of the reasons I'm standing here instead of other people is that, frankly, I talked about it, we have to have a strong military.

Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

You need to know that even as life develops in superficially disappointing ways, there is still fun to be had.