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."

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

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.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

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

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.