The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

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.

A journey of the mind – a written vision quest – has only one goal: to interact with the world and attempt to develop the dormant intellectual and spiritual awareness of the author.

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.

I love doing laundry! It's so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

If I can get David Haye , he will sink, one hundred per cent!