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.

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.

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

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.

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.