There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.

Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.

All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.