A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

The fact that it is sometimes difficult for me to believe in God doesn't mean that I deny his existence. If I stopped believing in him, I wouldn't be able to continue living.

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

I didn't pay my taxes for years.

The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have.

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.