The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?

Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.