Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

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

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.