Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it.

Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.