What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.

When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

I don't like dudes. Not even for 1 second.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

But you can't make someone be something they're not.

There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.