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

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

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

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

Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: -- I move not without Thy knowledge!

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.