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

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

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

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

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.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.