Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.