The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.

Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.