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.

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

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

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

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

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 learn to swim on a piano bench.