Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

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.

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.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

You have to fight for respect. In life, even cashiers at the supermarket, if they're women, they're differently treated. It's a reality. The reality is not nice; it's not pretty.

I'm ready to take the heat.

You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.