"Don't seek to have things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you."

"Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but choose to wish that everything that happens happen as it does, and your life will proceed smoothly."

"Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will."

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."