It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

God has made all men to be happy.

Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.

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

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.