"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"It is a universal law — have no illusion — that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest."

"Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths."

"Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.…"

"If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favorable."