Adversity isn't set against you to fail; adversity is a way to build your character so that you can succeed over and over again through perseverance.

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will.

What is success?

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be poisonous.

You're the girl that I want to grow old with.

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.