1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Have more than you show,
Speak less than you know.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989) by Jeffrey M. Elliot
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
“You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go…”
“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.”
Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 79
Variant: You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
According to The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/17/butterfly/, "the earliest instance of this saying was crafted by the enigmatic “L” for “The Daily Crescent” newspaper in New Orleans [in June 1848]. ... The linkage to Henry David Thoreau is unsupported."
Misattributed
