There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

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

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

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

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.