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

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

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

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

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.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

We were not created for death, but for life in abundance: eternal life.

You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.