Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.