"Don't let fears of what could go wrong stand in the way of what could go right."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."