“Be yourself, but always your better self.”

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.”

“The guidelines for achieving wisdom consist of three leading maxims: 1) Think for yourself; 2) (in communication with other people) Put yourself in the place of the other person; 3) Always think by remaining faithful to your own self.”

“The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.”

“When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”

“Whatever you do against your better knowledge is sin. (…) Remembering your self is virtue, forgetting your self is sin. (…)”

“Always listen to yourself… It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.”

“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”