Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Nothing great comes into being all at once.
Wish that everything should come about just as it does.