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.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

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