Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

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

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

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

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.

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

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Most of cognitive therapy has now adopted a similar idea. On the other hand, the relationship part of psychoanalysis - where you must have a deep, emotional relationship with the client - will, I think, get kicked in the teeth one of these days.