“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

“You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.”

“To Be young is to be always ready to give up what we are in order to become what we must be.To be young is never to accept the irreparable. ”

“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”

“I am what I am, and what I am is what I am. I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am. If I have a will to be, I will to be no more than what I was. If I was what I am willed to be, yet they ever will be wondering what I am or what I ever was. I want to change the Wall, and make my will. ”

“I must fill myself with sorrow if I am to give you what you want.”