Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.