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

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.