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

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

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

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect-not realizing that they have signaled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.