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.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist that they were wrong, that I was right and I had to prevail. I just agreed and disagreed with them. I thought there was a high degree of probability that I was right and some other thinkers were wrong. But I wasn't positive about it.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

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

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.