“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.