It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

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.

Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.