“Man is what he wills himself to be.”

“A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.”

“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”

“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”

“For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself”

“Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.”