In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.