"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."

"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."

"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most."

"Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness."

"Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure."

"You can't live principals you can't understand."

"No man loves life like him that's growing old"

"Better not to exist than live basely."