Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.