You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
To try to be better is to be better.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.