Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.