Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

God has entrusted me with myself.