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

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

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

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert - I like that. And seeing clients, doing group therapy, writing books.

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.