Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.