Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

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

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

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.

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.

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.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.