To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.