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

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.

In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have any. In regard to sex-love affairs, to marriage and family relations, to business, to politics, and to virtually everything else that is important in his life, he must try to discover what his god and his clergy would like him to do; and he must primarily do their bidding.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

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

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.