Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

No child should ever be too sad to play.

If you are reading this, I'm dead. Don't celebrate too much. Jesus is watching.

My journal is my life's companion.

When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.