"If someone is able to make you angry, then he is your master."

"The greatest good is that which is chosen in spite of fear."

"Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get."

"What, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? Tranquillity, fearlessness, freedom."

"If you want to be a man of leisure, do not be a man of business. For if you are a man of business, you must be a man of trouble."