If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

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.

There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. "You see? They're as bad as we are.""Worse, " Santi sighed.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

I don't do well at picking first single.

We be sticking pill up girl's booty, too!

Knowing that you're not alone really does make all the difference in the world.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.