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

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

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

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

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.