“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”

“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.”

“you have to do that kind of work for yourself. If you do it for other people, you end up wanting them to acknowledge it and to be grateful and to give you credit. If you do it for yourself, you don't expect other people to react in a particular way.”

“It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself.”

“In two years you can love somebody with all your heart and lose them. You can become the very best of friends with someone and then neglect them to the point that they don't expect anything different from you anymore. You can become someone you never expected and forget things you believed you could take for granted about yourself.”