The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"

If you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing to find out?

We must become what we wish to teach.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.