To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts

When things change inside you, things change around you.