If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

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.

To understand and to know someone better, you need is to love them first

I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.