I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

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

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

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

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.