Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love