If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control

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.