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 bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing to find out?

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights

It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to the resources they do possess than when they are told they don't have any.

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.