“You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.”

“You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.”

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

“Anybody can be a bum; all it takes is the right girl, the right bar and the right friends, and you are well… your buddies will see you off. They'll christen your dumpster for you.”

“You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.”

“If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”

“[Y]ou have to save yourself before you can save anyone else.”

“It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”

“Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo”

“Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!”