Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
We cannot alter facts but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.