It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

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

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.