The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.