Quotes by Albert Ellis

I’m very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it – going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

If something is irrational, that means it won’t work. It’s usually unrealistic.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn’t even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn’t hate him. I hated what he was doing.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.