The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

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

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

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.

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.