Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.

When leaders take back power when they act as heroes and saviors they end up exhausted overwhelmed and deeply stressed.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Well you know a lot of people look at the negative things the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Churchill knew the importance of peace and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice of course. He stressed strategy but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty justice and mercy.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died and the other has eaten the fiddle so all is peace.

The life of inner peace being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic money success work/life balance the economy the environment parenting family conflict relationships disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

All the perplexities confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation not from want of honor or virtue so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin credit and circulation.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor ya know?

Money is a handmaiden if thou knowest how to use it a mistress if thou knowest not.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money for that is the miser's passion not the thief s.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

My mom was a seamstress and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

It's her first grandchild so she's really really really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.