It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.

God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

External goals cannot fill internal voids.

You can’t go from people to nonpeople.

You can’t help the poor by becoming one of them.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living fully now.

One cannot live from anything except what one is.

I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.

seek no homes in other people's chests,

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

I can't beat you, I can't join you.