How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.