How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

He who eats my bread, does my will.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.