The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the notquite, the notyet, the notatall. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours