We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

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.

We shouldn’t use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.

The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.