Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.