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.

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.

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.

If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

I have been on a life-long search of how to stay in shape without putting any effort into it whatsoever.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.