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 individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

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.

This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

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

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

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