I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.