Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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

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.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.