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

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

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.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

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.