The Key to Invincibility

"Do not be an unwise churl and rail at society nor so worldly wise as to condemn solitude.  But use them as a condition.  Be their master, not their slave.  Make circumstance, all circumstance, conform to the law of your mind.  Be always a king, and not they, and nothing shall hurt you."

                                                  

                                            -Ralph Waldo Emerson