“People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.”

“you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be”

“It's all perfect, this Universe we are in. Slow down and enjoy it all.”

“Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.”

“When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"”

“And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.”

“Some falls the means are happier to rise.”

“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”

“I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.”

“Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.”

“...lest too light winning make the prize light.”

“Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.”

“You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame”

“For to define true madness,What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”

“Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.”

“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,are your own nature reflected in them.”