“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”

“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.”