You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.

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.

We tend to think that what matters is decided by society or culture or religion or our peers, but no one can say what truly matters except us.

Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will." Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

The end is never worth the beginning.

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.