Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations