We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
I care about your happiness just as you care about mine. I could not be at peace if you were not.
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.
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit…
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.