Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty to choose the right. The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going.
Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong . . . Hatred can be overcome only by love. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. Too frequently I find that a person's morality is a code by which he believes others should perform toward him, rather than a code guiding his behavior toward others.