Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

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.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Silence will speakIf given an ear

A spark of every fire we seek is already within us.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.