Every day ask yourself, “What would I do today if I were a better person?” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919