From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

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

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.