Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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.
To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.