Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

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

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.