It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. For example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have appeared so to Socrates; but the judgment that death is terrible — that is the terrible thing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Only the educated are free.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.