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.

The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.

If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.