Respect starts with ourselves.

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.

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

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

We must become what we wish to teach.