“If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.”
“Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!”
“The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.”
“You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself.”
“You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.”
“You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.”