I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.