I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.