The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.