Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

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

God has made all men to be happy.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.