We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.