Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.