“Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.”

Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.

Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.

Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.

If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.

You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.

Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.

I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.

It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.

Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.

I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.

The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.

You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.

It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.

You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.

Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.

The end of one story is the beginning of another.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

Having a friend to listen to your problems and discuss them with you is the beginning of finding a solution.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.