The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

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.

Its not easy to steer life without errors

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

Voters, I think, in many ways, have begun to really reject the system.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.