“Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?”

“whatever you think that you will be.
if you think yourself weak, weak you will be;
if you think yourself strong, you will be”

“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”

“But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”

“You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.”

“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”

“Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.”

“When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?”

“When you are about to badger the weak,
Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”