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

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

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

In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have any. In regard to sex-love affairs, to marriage and family relations, to business, to politics, and to virtually everything else that is important in his life, he must try to discover what his god and his clergy would like him to do; and he must primarily do their bidding.

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

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