What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.