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

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

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.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

I don't recommend that people speak their minds to their bosses or to somebody who's directly over them. You need to know when to speak your mind and what the penalty will be for doing so. Sometimes it's worth it, and often it's not!

We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.