Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins. You need to understand boundaries. You need to know what is and is not up to you, what is and is not in your control, what is and is not your responsibility.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.

How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.