A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.

It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.

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.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.

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

The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.