“Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it'...” — Albert Ellis Quote

“Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.”

“Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.”

“I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.”

“Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever value they might have in their own right, their viability as a publishing proposition was conditional on the interest of the large readership of his novels and stories.”

“We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.”

“Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.”