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."

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?