Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.