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.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

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

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

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