“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”