To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...

California: The west coast of Iowa.

Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life— is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.