Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education - education that remains elusive for too many Americans.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Unlike a celebrity, there's nothing I won't try and nothing I won't talk about when it comes to my hair. If I were to get a tattoo on my inner upper arm, it would read, 'Change thy hair, change thyself.'

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.