You have to be someone.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Common is not the same as universal.

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy. The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot; shows that you lack that faith which is the ground of all effort and progress.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

I think he's accomplished so much, I don't think it's fair to put me in the same category as Coach Payton. I think, hopefully, if you achieve even close to what he has in this league, then maybe you start to get mentioned.

I always say, 'Hey, I'm in Metallica, but I wasn't on the Black Album.'

You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else.

Before you do the work of reconciliation with another, you need to restore communication with yourself.

I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then, to see that it led to an antisocial and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punished him who gives in to it. And it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.