We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

It is your friends who make your world.

You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.