We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.