“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”

“You must have your own responsibility, your own consciousness.”

“Writing is all about the preservation of your own voice.”

“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius”

“Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.”

“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”

“Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God’s going to have his revenge.”

“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

“If the soul doesn't exist, how is it possible to converse with oneself ? Or, hear your own voice?”

“You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.”