Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens