Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

Live to live and you will learn to live

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.