“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”

“If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little "kinks".”

“We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves”

“We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.”

“What is embarrassment? In general, embarrassment is an emotional response to an innocent mistake. The major reason that some of us are embarrassment-prone is that we’ve been conditioned to set unrealistically high expectations for ourselves and to judge ourselves negatively when we can’t possibly meet those standards. A second reason that makes us susceptible to embarrassment is that we’ve been taught to take our cue in evaluating ourselves from what we assume (often erroneously) to be others’ opinions of us.”