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.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago, ' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.

I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.