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

Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

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.

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

The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what you wish-from yourself, from others, and from the world. You can by all means keep your wishes, preferences, and desires, but unless you prefer to remain needlessly anxious, not your grandiose demands.