A second basic value, in some ways an extension of the first, I owe to an old college professor who had suffered more than his share of grief and trouble. Over and over he said to us："The one thing that really matters is to be bigger than the things that can happen to you.Nothing that can happen to you is half so important as the way in which you meet it."
Gradually I realized that here was the basis of the only real security and peace of mind that a human being can have. Nobody can be sure when disaster, disappointment, injustice or humiliation may come to him through no fault of his own.Nor can one be guaranteed against one's own mistakes and failures.But the way we meet life is ours to choose and when integrity, fortitude, dignity and compassion are our choice, the things that can happen to us lose their power over us.