It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

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.

The greatest value in the goal process is the skills, the knowledge, the discipline, and the character you develop in pursuit of your goal.

Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

If the truth was equal to the lie, and our love was equal to our hatred, we would become absolutely nil persons.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.