Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.