You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.