“The need of the hour is to get people to talk to each other and to clear the air. I don't approve of fusion in art, but I definitely approve of it in the field of politics.”

“I don't need anyone else's approval.
If I happen to have admirers, well that is just a plus.
I don't require other's opinion of me.”

“No, I have not been able to reconcile them. It is, perhaps, because of the conflict of the different approvals the different persona demand. The political personality survives in no small measure on approval of others. The creative personality needs an emotional seal. The ethical one ordains the approval of one’s conscience. I have not been able to integrate them.”

“Approval is overrated… Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.”

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”

“Why do you want the approval of others who don't even approve of themselves?”

“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”

“There is no need to seek external approval when you already have internal approval.”

“I do not approve of you, Thomas, and I do not approve of your woman, but nor can I approve of a Church that uses pain to bring the love of God to a sinful world. Evil begets evil, it spreads like a weed, but good works are tender shoots that need husbandry.”

“I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.”