“Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.”

"Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet..."

“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them”

"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

“Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?”

"Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man..."

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”

“I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?”

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"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."

“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”

“Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.”