Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
I am more spontaneous than my character.
People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?