The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

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?

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

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.