I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not".

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.