“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“You become what you give your attention to.”

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts"

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”

“Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back”

“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”