Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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.

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

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

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.