How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Read Summary
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Read Summary
My philosophy is that you do what you have to do. Read Summary
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. Read Summary
There are things one must do for oneself. Read Summary
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Read Summary
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. Read Summary
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. Read Summary
Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God. Read Summary
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day. Read Summary
I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet. Read Summary
If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame. Read Summary
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. Read Summary
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. Read Summary
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. Read Summary
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Read Summary
I don't have any regrets. I made all my own decisions. Read Summary
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. Read Summary
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. Read Summary
God has entrusted me with myself. Read Summary