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

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Silence is safer than speech.