My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.