It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment