You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.

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.

Avoid all doubtful ideas and put your mind into the realms of true belief.

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.

If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than most people will ever do.

The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant.

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

Kill the head, the body will die.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.