We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit…
What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes? The real life is within.