One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
The wisest have the most authority.