Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

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

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.