Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.