I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.