“If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.”

A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations.

But leisure has little to do with one’s happiness.

Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, “I don’t know. But one thing I do know.

When I get there I am not going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Moses? Why weren’t you David?’ I am only going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Zuscha? Why weren’t you fully you?'”

One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

You will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people.

The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.

I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

You don’t doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you? As far as I can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.