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.

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

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

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. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

My rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was one of the very few therapies that was originated partly or largely because I wanted to be brief and efficient. And therefore right from the start I was active and directive. I tried to show people some central masturbatory core to their philosophy and to get them to work at changing it cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally.