Neither Should A Ship Rely On One

In Life Our First Job Is This, To Divide And Distinguish Things Into Two Categories: Externals I Cannot Control, But The Choices I Make With Regard To Them I Do Control. Where Will I Find Good And Bad? In Me, In My Choices.

No Living Being Is Held By Anything So Strongly As Its Own Needs.

If I Was A Nightingale I Would Sing Like A Nightingale; If A Swan, Like A Swan. But Since I Am A Rational Creature My Role Is To Praise God.

First Say To Yourself What You Would Be; And Then Do What You Have To Do.

Nothing Great Is Created Suddenly, Any More Than A Bunch Of Grapes Or A Fig.