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.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.