Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

It's not that achievements prove our worth but rather that the process of achieving is the means by which we develop our effectiveness, our competence at living.

The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

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