Love is union with somebody or something outside oneself under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that work as hard as one can one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open except yourself.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.