“Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.”

“You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.”

“It is normally possible to be much more certain who your children are than who your brothers are. And you can be more certain still who you yourself are!”

“You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.”

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.”
Recede in te ipse quantum potes; cum his versare qui te meliorem facturi sunt, illos admitte quos tu potes facere meliores. Mutuo ista fiunt, et homines dum docent discunt.

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”

“There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.”

“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”

“Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.”