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.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.