An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

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.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

I wish not to tell you how I feel, I choose silence so that you leave, Kiss me goodbye and set me free...

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?

Let's not get too comfortable with each other.

There's not much who would have hit him [Fabio Capello] in the eye and made him put his hat on.

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.