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

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

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

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.