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

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.

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.

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

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

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