Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

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.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.