The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through some discipline or routine (even the routine of making beds) who one is and wants to be.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.