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

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

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.

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.