In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

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.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.