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.

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.

You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.