Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.