“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”

“He should accept me as I am!” says the woman who is too nice.
Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you
madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a
doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.”

“They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.”

“Consider the world as an abode where in you have dropped down for an hour, then you have got to leave it and go ahead; or (suppose it is) like the wealth which you lay hands upon in a dream and become over-joyed and glad. Then you wake up to find yourself empty handed.”

“There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

“I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

“If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.”

“If every man lays down his arms and refuses to pick them up, the first man to pick up can do whatever he wants.”