“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.”
“Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
“If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them.”
“You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.”
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
“I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.”