The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Proverbs takes a supremely pragmatic approach: "A wife of noble character who can find?" (31:10). This verse assumes that we are involved in a serious pursuit, actively engaging our minds to make a wise choice. And the top thing a young man should consider is this: "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised" (Prov. 31:30).

it may feel as if they just want you to stop being you.

A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.

It wasn't easy. In junior high, I was voted "most polite," and it took some time for me to realize that being perceived as a "nice guy" and being a faithful Christian don't always go hand in hand.

The truth is, we want to be known; we truly do. But we're afraid. If you see the real me, will you run away? Am I even worth being known? Will the real me bore you? Scare you? Repulse you? And so we hide.

In case you've never thought about it, a woman's body changes much more rapidly than her character does.

I dress the way I want. I don`t pretend to be someone I`m not.

Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.