Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.

The street bred a gritty self-reliance in its children. It was their frontier.