Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.

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

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.