“You will never ever be happy if you were trying to change who you are to fit in with others.”

“You don't want to write a big comment that tells others how to make a change they might want to make, because you don't know what change they're going to want to make. Better to have the attitude that you can't help future programmers make their changes. All you can do is make it easy for them to understand what you were trying to do. And it will be easiest for them to understand what you were trying to do if you were very careful to not try to do too much.”

“The problem with conformists will always be that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system. It's the system that will eventually change you”

“You can’t change how people feel about you, so don’t try. Just live your life and be happy.”

“It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.”

“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change”

“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.”

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

“You could be happy, the minute you try.
Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?”

“It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.”