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

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has, and I hope that REBT teaches them how to do it.

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

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

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.