Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

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.

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.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

Isn't death the boundary we need?

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

Homosexuals are riding high in the media.