At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
We all have the power of thought – so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
-Benjamin Franklin
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld