Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

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

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.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.