Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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

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

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

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.