When we cannot change a situation, resolution comes through the way we choose to handle it within ourselves.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

We don’t choose to be role models; we are chosen. Our only choice is whether to be a good role model or a bad one.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.