We all get where we’re going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.