“There comes a time in each life, like a point of fulcrum. At that time, you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.”

- John Fowles

“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

- Erich Fromm

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

- Hans Hofmann

“Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.”

- Hugh Walpole

“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.”

- William Cobbett

“A compliment is verbal sunshine.”

- Robert Orben

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

- Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)