“harness your own power though what you keep to yourself”

“Feed your mind. Cultivate impressions and opinions. Know what you think.”

“Invest your time in what is personally meaningful and relevant”

“She is focused on living her own full life, following her own agenda and cultivating her actual self, rather than reinventing herself or pining away to be someone she's not.”

“If you forbid [children] from doing what is natural , they will seek it out later in ways that are unnatural and perverse.”

“Consider your life your personal currency-and invest it wisely.”

“[For the French] time...is an ephemeral currency and should be spent doing the things that make life worth living.”