It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.