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.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.