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.

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.

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

When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed 2,000 years ago: "People are disturbed not by events that happen to them, but by their view of them." I could see how that applied to many of my clients.