“Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.”

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”

“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”

“You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you”

“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”

“Compromise is necessary,” Max agreed, “so long as you never give up who you are. That isn’t compromise; that’s spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.”

“Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.”

“Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.”

“Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.”

“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”