Albert Ellis Quotes

"People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us."
-Albert Ellis

"I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't, we'll have chaos worse than we already do."
-Albert Ellis

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny."
-Albert Ellis

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

"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
-Albert Ellis

"He appeared to me the bravest man it fell to my unhappy lot to execute."
-Albert Ellis

"He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of that."
-Albert Ellis