If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

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

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.