By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

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

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

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.

When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist that they were wrong, that I was right and I had to prevail. I just agreed and disagreed with them. I thought there was a high degree of probability that I was right and some other thinkers were wrong. But I wasn't positive about it.