Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. -Les Brown

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. -Frederick Douglass

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. -André Gide

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. -Oprah Winfrey

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. -Israel Zangwill

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. -Charles R. Brown