“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.”

“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”

“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”

“For the effect is in the cause, and Karma produces the manifestation of it in the body, brain, and mind furnished by reincarnation. And as a cause set up by one man has a distinct relation to him as a center from which it came, so each one experiences the results of his own acts. We may sometimes seem to receive effects solely from the acts of others, but this is the result of our own acts and thoughts in this or some prior life. We perform our acts in company with others always, and the acts with their underlying thoughts have relation always to other persons and to ourselves.”

“Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.”

“It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights…”

“The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.”

“When you come from your memory, you create one kind of experience. When you come from your intention, you create another kind of experience altogether. Always, with your choices, you are answering a single question: Who am I? Every act is an act of self-definition.”

“The last people in the world in whom the personality would consent to be absorbed into pantheism is the French.”

“How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.”