Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

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.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

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

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.