The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.