Albert Ellis

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

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.