If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us, energizes us, pulls us back sometimes from the abyss of despair. True spirituality does not exist without love of life.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

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

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.