A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.