Spencer Johnson

“I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.”

“I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.”

“The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists”

“The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.”

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”

“It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation”

“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there”

“What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.”

“I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.”