Spend some time alone every day.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Virtue illuminates everything; it fills what is empty, heals what is sick and settles what is troubled.
Is there some time for yourself today - just for you, to sit quietly and refresh and renew. Not escaping into the TV, or thrashing around a squash court. Just time to sit quietly, focus your thoughts, check your priorities, make sure there is nothing negative pushing you down in your own mind. Take some time and be ...with yourself. If you don't, you may miss meeting the most important person in your life.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
It is easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Honour is a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Take no notice of the stupid things people say.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
