Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

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

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.