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

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

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 would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

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.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.