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.

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.