The best person I can be is me.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

For we that live please must please to live.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

Now is the accepted time.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.