Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

Let no act be done without purpose.