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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I’m trying to listen!

It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.