Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

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.

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.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.