You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

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

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

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.

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

I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.

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.