“When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.”

“I had no more value after I became an author than when I was in my home tending to runny noses, little bumps and bruises. . . Our value can't be wrapped inside what others think or we think, because that is too dependent on this ever-shifting world. The value God places on us makes us more than we think we are, even on our hardest days, weeks, or years.”

“What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.”

“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”

“pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.”