“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.”

“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could”

“When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.”

“Most people's lives are governed by willpower. An artist is someone who has no will.”

“People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.”

“…I am absolutely not someone who thinks that politics is separate from the most intimate details of people’s lives…”

“I’ve heard people say that the hardest thing in the world is to live with someone you don’t love. But I’ve always thought it would be far more difficult to live with someone who doesn’t love you.”

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”