“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

“All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

“Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings… It's something we make inside ourselves.”

“Tis strange how the heart can create
Or colour from itself its fate;
We make ourselves our own distress,
We are ourselves our happiness.”

“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”

“This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”

“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”

“When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.”