Self

“I was my own Svengali!”

“To be an entrepreneur you have to be a certain kind of person – it doesn’t suit everyone.”

“The main impulse was shame, the desire to consider oneself a decent person.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“The “I” does not refer to the subject of the speaker in the same way as the name Bina Gupta does. The “I” is not a name.”

“I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write.”

“My name is Gauhar Jaan!”

“What people say about you is none of your business. What you say about you is entirely your business.”

“Мы никогда не будем умны чужим умом и славны чужою славою.”

“I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity.”

“Uno es más que su yo profundo, que su posición metafísica; hay otras cosas que cuentan.”

“I'm happier than I have ever been. And it is largely based on the perception of myself that I can survive anything.”

“Complete freedom starts within yourself and then it goes without.”

“I was ashamed of the artist that I was, at that point in time.”

“And third, you have to believe in yourself.”

“This is true because we must “be” before we can “do,” and we can “do” only to the extent which we “are,” and what we “are” depends upon what we “think.””

“For the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal improvement.”

“The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator’s place and laugh at his own misfortunes.”