Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads