He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.....

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.....

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.....

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.....

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true...!  

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.....

Don't forget that your spirit-twinkle makes life's rainbow shine bright.....

We are betrayed by what is false within....

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.....

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.,,,,

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do...

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is......

Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.....

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.....

Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.....

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin......

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.....

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.....

 Be open.  And then the truth follows......

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.....

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself....

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny.  The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.....

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves....

You were born an original.  Don't die as a copy......

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.....

There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it.  If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp....

 Do what others do because they do and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul....

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.....

Why try to be someone you're not?  Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required...

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.....

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.....

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die......

 Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.....

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves......

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.....

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul......

No one is free when others are oppressed.......