Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

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

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.