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.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.