Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.