The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.