"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
"When they came to shoe the horses the beetle stretched out his leg."
- English proverb
"It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever."
- Walt Whitman
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
- Goethe
"Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers."
- William Butler Yeats
"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
- Knute Rockne
"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
- Mark Twain
"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
- Tallulah Bankhead
"Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - ..."
- Ayn Rand
"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
- Aristotle