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

Difficulty shows what men are.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Act your part with honor.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.