Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Give full attention and devotion to each act.

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial