We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
I care about your happiness just as you care about mine. I could not be at peace if you were not.
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit.