“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”

“Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”

“If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.”

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it.

Where I am nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.