“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

The best revenge is not to do as they do.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.