Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.