“The antidote for self-pity and negative thinking is gratitude.”

“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”

“The mistake is in thinking there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”

“In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.”

“Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.”

“Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge.”

“Self-pity is not as sterile as we suppose. Once we feel its mere onset, we assume a thinker's attitude, and come to think of it, we come to think!”

“Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease. It is the fastest way to dissolve anxiety, to heal disappointment, to replace negativity with positivity. It is the connecting energy to God.”

“The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.”

“That most risky and volatile of all things—a self-pitying majority.”