We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

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

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

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.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

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

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.