I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart...

If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, “I shall win!”–the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men...

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared...

Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others.