Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Resist much. Obey little.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.