“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“Personal responsibility is the willingness to completely accept choices that we have made throughout our life.”

“Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect.”

“Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.”

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”