Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

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.

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.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

The Gospel is about what Jesus did, not what we have to do.

Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?

Pessimism never won any battle.

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

I just thought it would be a fun rush of adrenaline to jump out of a plane three times.

If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.