Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control