I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other peoples truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave. – Jewel

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the masters master, the genius of the age. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. – A. N. Wilson