I hope to die in the saddle seat.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

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

When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed 2,000 years ago: "People are disturbed not by events that happen to them, but by their view of them." I could see how that applied to many of my clients.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.