The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Habits are safer than rules. You don't have to watch them. They keep you.

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.