The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
What's important is finding out what works for you.
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.
What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.
Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.