Set goals that don't feel all that easy, that challenge you, stimulate you, and give you a chance to stretch and push yourself. That is where the power of growth lies.

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.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

My real goal is the Olympics. It's going to be tough but it was very good preparation to play here.

There is no achievement without risk.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.