The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.

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.

It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.

To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering.

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.