"If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place."

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own."

"Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining."

"Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world."

"If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything."

"By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit."

"It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing."

"When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed."

"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has."

"You mainly feel the way you think."

"Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live."

"You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting."

"People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us."

"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy."

"By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think."

"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well . And the world must be easy."

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."

"Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing."

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."

"Intention is living in the present, actively choosing the future while being aware that in each moment your state of mind is up to you."

"Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have."

"Invest in the life you have to get the life you want."

"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals."