What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
What people need and what they want may be very different.