It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?