The thoughts or cognitions occur automatically, and may be regarded as the patient's automatic interpretations of his experiences.

There is more to the surface than meets the eye.

Hostility, anger, and rage are best understood as derivatives of an underlying perception of threat or transgression.

If your thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning, and erroneous interpretations, you are, in truth, blind and deaf.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

-- Martin Seligman

Losses loom larger than gains.

-- Daniel Kahneman

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.

-- Albert Ellis

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

-- Albert Ellis

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

-- Hans Eysenck

The mere awareness of the presence of an out-group is sufficient to provoke intergroup competitive or discriminatory responses on the part of the in-group.

-- Henri Tajfel