Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

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.

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