The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.