Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

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. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

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.

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