What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.