Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.