There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.

The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.