Who you define yourself as wins.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

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.

And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

All limitations are self-imposed.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.