You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.