God has entrusted me with myself.

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

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

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.