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

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.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.