“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.

Can I doubt the shape of the earth? Can I judge a minute for lasting sixty seconds, a day for being grey or cold and leaves for falling from trees? Can I speak too loud when I am angry or stay quiet when I disagree? Can I forget about the norms and make some of my own?

Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.

Can I doubt the shape of the earth? Can I judge a minute for lasting sixty seconds, a day for being grey or cold and leaves for falling from trees? Can I speak too loud when I am angry or stay quiet when I disagree? Can I forget about the norms and make some of my own?

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.

Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.