"Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power."

"Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within your control, and some things are not."

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

"Difficulties show a person's character."

"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope."

"I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things."

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right, especially when one is right."

"Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy."

"I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air."

"Man is the cruelest animal."