“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”

“From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.”

“I never used any outside influence to advance my career. All I had was the inner urge to seek more within myself. The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come.”

“The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.”

“One life is far too little for all the things I feel within myself, and I invent other lives within and outside myself for them. A whirling crowd of invented beings surrounds me and prevents me from seeing reality. Color bites at my heart.”

“At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.”

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”

“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”

“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.”

“I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.”