Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.