“But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

— Rudyard Kipling, Interview with an Immoral, Arthur Gordon, Reader's Digest (July 1959; interview held June 1935)

About Rudyard Kipling

1865 – 1936

English writer and poet, Nobel laureate in Literature (1907), known for 'The Jungle Book' and the poem 'If—'.

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.”

“Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.”

“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”

“Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?"”

“Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!”

“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”

“The only possible society is oneself.”

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”