Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.