Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

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

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.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

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

God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.