The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

It is not my role to go out and do the power hitting. My job is to play my natural game.

In the end, it’s the battles you won against yourself that matter.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.