Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.