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

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert - I like that. And seeing clients, doing group therapy, writing books.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

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