"Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.…"

"Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene."

"It is not poverty that is feared, but the opinion about poverty."

"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself; if it be a lie, laugh at it."

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."