“If you're worrying about yourself too much, help someone else who has real worries. Turn your anxiety into something productive.”
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
“When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.”
“Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.”
“People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...”
“At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.”