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

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.