There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

Transformation is an acquired taste—not for the faint of heart.

If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life?

Nobody from your past should beheld responsible for your future.The only person accountable foryour future is you.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills.