"If you always remember that God stands by you, and inspects your acts, whether in soul or body, you will not err either in your prayers or in your acts."

"The true man is one who wills to be a man, and he who wills to be a man is a man."

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

"Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."