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

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

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have any. In regard to sex-love affairs, to marriage and family relations, to business, to politics, and to virtually everything else that is important in his life, he must try to discover what his god and his clergy would like him to do; and he must primarily do their bidding.

I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in January 1955; later I used the term "rational emotive." Now I call myself a "rational emotive behavior therapist." But from the start, I always included philosophic techniques as well as experiential, emotional and behavioral techniques.