Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.