I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

There is a point where you have to stop the motion in your life, stop and look at where you're going, where you've been, and what you doing right now. You spend so much time trying to get more, when you already have enough, that you've forgot how to appreciate what is already yours.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.