Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own