You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

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

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.