People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.

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.