Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An foolish notion.

There is no purifier like knowledge in this world: time makes man find himself in his heart.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right ... Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.

We are "influenced" by something which is close and similar to the roots of our soul. Real influence is that which helps us be ourselves, that which elicits the hidden, the deepest secrets in ourselves.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.