A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realizatio n-the realization of the best within you-is the noblest goal of your existence.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge