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.

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.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

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

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

The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.