“I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.”

“Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.”

“Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.”

“Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement.”

“The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.”

“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 the...”

“What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.”

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”