Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else.

Simone de Beauvoir

It's better to be ignorant than wrong.

Shane Parrish

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Excuses are lies wrapped up in reasons.

Howard Wright

For many afflictions, silence is the best remedy.

Talmud, Megilah 18a