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 see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it.

God has made all men to be happy.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.