Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.