Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.

companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.

There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you.

Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world," she said.

I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.