People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.

The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

O dreamers of peace, come. Let us walk together. O lovers of peace, come. Let us run together. O servers of peace, come. Let us grow together.