I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

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

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.