Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"

As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves.

To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

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.

Sometimes pain is easier to bear alone than happiness.