When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.