The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.

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.

Time spent wisely gets compensated

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.