I can be a better me than anyone can.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

إن الصّم لا يرفعك الي مستوى الأذكياء ولكنه يجعلك تعيش في ظلهم وأنا أفضل أن أكون نصف ذكي على أن أعيش عالة على ذكاء غيري.

The Master was slipping from his official position momentarily, and it was just possible, if Phineas pressed hard enough, that there might be a flow of simple, unregulated friendliness between them, and such flows were one of Finny's reasons for living.