“We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own”

“It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.”

“When we search for "ourselves" in the eyes of others, we have imprisoned our own-selves in believing that our self-worth is nothing unless others validate who we are. Unless we approve of whom we are, what we are, and what we are capable of doing as an individual, only then we will have released "ourselves" from our own imprisonment. We are in charge of our own life's destiny and what we do and become can only be validated by our accomplishments and failures; not by what others may think of us.”

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”

“Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.”