You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
To thine own self be true.
The only journey is the one within.
In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.