Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

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

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.