Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy

We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It's worth taking time to demistify it. [...] All the things an adolescent can be [...] are reduced to a three digit number. [...] We too can decide how to value our education instead of letting them value us.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.