Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in January 1955; later I used the term "rational emotive." Now I call myself a "rational emotive behavior therapist." But from the start, I always included philosophic techniques as well as experiential, emotional and behavioral techniques.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist that they were wrong, that I was right and I had to prevail. I just agreed and disagreed with them. I thought there was a high degree of probability that I was right and some other thinkers were wrong. But I wasn't positive about it.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.