"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
"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."
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"