To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.