When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.