The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

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

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, and I hope that REBT teaches them how to do it.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.