Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.