"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
"Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you."
"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."
"Why do you want to read anyway – for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn’t make you peaceful, what good is it?"
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
"For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow."
"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."