People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.