If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.