The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.

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

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.