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

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.