It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.