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

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. – James Russell Lowell

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

There is great security in the prisons we create for ourselves. – Stephen G. Scalese, The Whisper in Your Heart