It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus
If you wish to be a writer, write.
If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.
Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.