No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Only the educated are free.