"Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external precepts."
—Balthasar Gracian
"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life."
—Marcel Proust
"He who knows himself is enlightened."
—Lao Tzu
"I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over."
—Karl Lagerfeld