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

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.

A goal without a date is just a dream.

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

In your light I learn how to love.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.