I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.