Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.