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.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

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

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.