Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has travelled only from himself to himself.
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. That’s the mark of a true professional.
