Augustus

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"There is nothing so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."

"Authority is not given; it is earned through wisdom and virtue."

"A man may be responsible for his thoughts, but not for their moral quality."

"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."

"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"In every moment, there is the power to change thy life, for what is life but the sum of choices?"

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"The mind is everything; what you think, you become."

"Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity tries the great."

"Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, but to accept our responsibility for the future."

"The only true failure is the failure to try."

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"The seed of great discovery is curiosity."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

"To lose patience is to lose the battle."

"The greatest prison is a closed mind."

"I rebel; therefore I exist."

"There is but one true evil—ignorance."

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We cannot selectively numb emotions; when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the joy and the gratitude."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you; do not flee from suffering."

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and to develop itself on all sides."