Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
God has entrusted me with myself.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.
If you wish to write, write.
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.