I don't recommend that people speak their minds to their bosses or to somebody who's directly over them. You need to know when to speak your mind and what the penalty will be for doing so. Sometimes it's worth it, and often it's not!

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

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.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.