Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

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

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

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.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. In that sense, psychotherapy belongs in the schools.