He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Then I’m tempted to die just to … spite him.”“That’s the spirit that will win us the war.

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

Light chases away darkness.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts unbridled now Just want.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

Work is love made visible.

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.