"Seek not to have things happen as you wish, but wish things to happen as they do, and you will have peace."

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which determines how we will act."

"If you want to be a writer, write."

"The price of apathy is to be at the mercy of those who are not."

"If you want to be a man, or a woman, and do what is proper to a human being, do not go to others and ask, 'Am I a human being?'"