Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

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.

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

Love me. Love my umbrella.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.