In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.