“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”

“Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.”

“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.”

“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”

“You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.”

“Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you”

“A lot of people, they think, ‘Oh, I’m only going to be happy when I find a special person who is going to make me happy.’ No. In life, you have to be happy with yourself first, number one. When you’re happy with yourself, you have to find another person who is happy with herself so you can share your happiness.”

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

“If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.”

“How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.”