We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.