A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

We must become what we wish to teach.

I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.

Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.

To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.

Most of us are capable of more than we believe.

Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.

If her artist's eye had given her nothing else, it taught her to see beauty where few others noticed it.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

No one will ever kill me, they wouldn't dare

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.

As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.