acceptance

The work praises the man.

Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.

Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.

It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.