“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.”

“There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.”

“Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?”

“Remember, you’re unique. And so is everyone else.”

“One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.”

“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”

“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”

“Not only the artist but everyone "becomes someone else" in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinctness in his Cogito drawings, "I think, therefore Descartes is." One creates not oneself but another. Being is in the act.”

“To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.”

“Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.”