In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.