This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

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

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

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

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