Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.

When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.

I transmit but do not create; I trust in and love the ancients.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Character is destiny.

-- Heraclitus

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

-- Howard Schultz

If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake.

-- Bill Gates

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

-- Oprah Winfrey

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

-- Albert Ellis