“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
“Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other”
“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”
“He's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being.”
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”
“There are some things more important than your own life. Like friendship, and love, and trust, and goodness.”