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

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.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

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