When people are not accepting toward themselves they are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

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.

Yesterday is gone, live for today and leave a legacy for tomorrow.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

I do think your attitude towards money is an inherent part of your character.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.