“The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.”

“You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.”

“Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.”

“The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.”

“The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome PeopleSince what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power”

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.”

“Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.”

“They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”