Let every action aim solely at the common good.

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.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.