Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

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.

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.