Think of God oftener than you breathe.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.