Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.