One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.