“If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.... Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

“If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”

“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

“Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way the Spartan way - and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.”

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”

“Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.Thirty years now I have laboredTo dredge the silt from your throat.I am none the wiser.”

“Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”