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

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.