What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.