Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.