Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

All those happy confusions of himself with God, those identifications with divinity and genius, and that supreme self-confidence-all of them were as lost as the smoke of Gettysburg, the tears of Gethsemane.

Assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude-confidence in self.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

They can do all because they think they can.