Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

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

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

We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Most of cognitive therapy has now adopted a similar idea. On the other hand, the relationship part of psychoanalysis - where you must have a deep, emotional relationship with the client - will, I think, get kicked in the teeth one of these days.