I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
Faults are soon copied.
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.