“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”

“To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.”

“No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time”

“A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.”

“Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.”

“If you want to be proud of yourself, you have got to do things you can be proud of.”

“Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?”He laughed and flicked his whip again, harder. He was in a better mood than I had seen for months.“No, Camelot, not hope. Hope is for the weak; have I not succeeded in teaching you that? To hope is to put your faith in others and in things outside yourself; that way lies betrayal and disappointment. They didn't want hope, Camelot; they wanted certainty. What a man needs is the certainty that he is right, no self-doubt, no fleeting thought that he might be wrong or misled. Absolute certainty that he is right—that's what gives a man the confidence and power to do whatever he wants and to take whatever he wants from this world and the next.”