You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do!" It's what makes people hostile, nasty, mean and combative, and it leads to feuds, wars and genocide. We'd better do something about that.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.