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.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.