Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Rectify one angle of a square and the other angles will be automatically right.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

When you're through changing, you're through.

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

Can we not appreciate that our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves? To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays, to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could, to give as we have never given, to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever- this is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.