“The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.”

“You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.”

“Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.”

“The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.”

“The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome PeopleSince what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power”

“O, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”

“When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.”

“Extremity is the trier of spirits.”