Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

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.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.