“You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition”

“Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.”

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

“Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.”

“You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.”

“The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.”