My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.