Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

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 teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

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

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.