In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

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.

Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe bursts in to save you. Not a bad idea.

Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.