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.

My rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was one of the very few therapies that was originated partly or largely because I wanted to be brief and efficient. And therefore right from the start I was active and directive. I tried to show people some central masturbatory core to their philosophy and to get them to work at changing it cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

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. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.