Life doesn’t depend on any one opinion, any one custom, or any one century. - Baltasar Gracián

Know your strongest Point — your pre-eminent gift; cultivate that and you will assist the rest. Every one would have excelled in something if he had known his strong point. Notice in what quality you surpass, and take charge of that. In some judgment excels, in others valour. Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.

Nor should we lose heart if something doesn’t please someone, for there’ll always be someone else it does.