Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.