Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.