It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

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

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

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

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.