Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

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

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

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.

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.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.