Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

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