The world belongs to those who persevere.

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.

The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.

If you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing to find out?

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

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

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.