“It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.”

“You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.”

“A Frenchman's self-assurance stems from his belief that he is mentally and physically irresistibly fascinating to both men and women. An Englishman's self-assurance is founded on his being a citizen of the best organized state in the world and on the fact that, as an Englishman, he always knows what to do, and that whatever he does as an Englishman is unquestionably correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets. A Russian is self-assured simply because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe in the possibility of knowing anything fully.”

“A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.”

“World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.”

“Self-composed and self-assured ataraxy is giving ataxia a miss.”