We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

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

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.

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)

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.