“Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem.”

Love, honor, and negotiate.

A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations.

But leisure has little to do with one’s happiness.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, “I don’t know. But one thing I do know.

When I get there I am not going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Moses? Why weren’t you David?’ I am only going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Zuscha? Why weren’t you fully you?'”

One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

You will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people.

The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness – changing your thoughts and energy around that person – can lower stress.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.

The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.

Don’t let the bastards get you down.

Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It’s the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.