There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
History is more or less bunk.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.