What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

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

The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.

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.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.