As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.

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.

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.

I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prints, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forever.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.

Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.

Attention without feeling is only a report.

You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.