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

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell