He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- AesopTo decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. DaleNo man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. -- John Donne, Meditation XVIII live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert EinsteinThe more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag HammarskjoldA man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans HughesThe one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper LeeAt the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world. -- Rainer Maria RilkeWe're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom RobbinsSelf-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia SampsonBetter keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard ShawThe man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David ThoreauIf you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf