True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.