How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.