Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.

I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world c…

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged...

One does not become fully human painlessly.

The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly: it is perhaps a sign of their strength.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou-sand men.