If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

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

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.