What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope