"Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency." — Albert Ellis

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

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.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.