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

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

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

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.