There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard the idea of longevity and cease loving this life, instead committing these things to God and, believing that no one ever escapes destiny, to consider, with that in mind, how we may live the best possible life in the time that remains.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

Enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.