You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.