Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.