Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

No one is free who is not master of himself. Pythagoras

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Keller

do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo