No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.