For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

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.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

It’s amazing how a bed feels more like a home than any other part of a house.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

I crawled in the bathroom, looked in the mirror and saw the devil. It was me.

If you are always trying to do something great and different and fresh, lots of them are going to be shut down for lots of stupid or good reasons, but you have to keep on trying.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Every day I ask my husband, 'Is it possible to over kiss your child?' I literally think I kiss him 200 times in a day. It's not normal!

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.