You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

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

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

Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.

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.

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.