Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

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

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