“The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.”

“Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.”

“Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!”

“When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.”

“I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.”

“The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”

“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”

“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”