I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But, listed separately, I have a few good features.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.