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The day I can’t do something for myself will be the day I pack my bags and leave.

Anybody depending on somebody else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I’ve never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I’m not entangled in shaping my work according to other people’s views of how I should have done it.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.