Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

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.

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.