What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

God has made all men to be happy.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.