Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

Often things are as bad as they seem.

There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. (98)

And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)

You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)