If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

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

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

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

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.