Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

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

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

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Stop shoulding on yourself

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.