Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.

It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

We need to challenge our own thinking.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Aronson's first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

Peace is nothing but the confusion between two wars

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

There's going to be highs and there's going to be lows, try to keep your emotions out of it a little bit.

Coaches build teams, parents build players.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that.

Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.