Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.