Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

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

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.