Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.