If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

If you live for yourself, you are selfish. If you live for others, you are foolish. If you live for nothing, you are are stupid. If you live for something, you are enlightened.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.