“To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.”

“For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”

“To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.”

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

“The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.”

“Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either”

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”