It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.
God has entrusted me with myself.