The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

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