“He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.”

By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Only the educated are free.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

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.