Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.

You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.