If you wish to be a writer, write.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.