“Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of endurance”

“We are not defined by our things. Its not our clothes we wear or the cars we own or the art we aquire. It's not where we live but how we live. Its out ACTIONS that are remebered once we are gone.”

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”

“In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.”

“As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.”

“How small, of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,Our own felicity we make or find:”