Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance.

Short-term pain leads to long-term gain.

The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.