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

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

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.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.