The hardest prisons to break out of are the ones we build ourselves. – Author unknown

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. – Osho

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

The only man we have any respect for is the man who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [Preceding Fischerisms entry — Karl Lu