Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist that they were wrong, that I was right and I had to prevail. I just agreed and disagreed with them. I thought there was a high degree of probability that I was right and some other thinkers were wrong. But I wasn't positive about it.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.