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.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.