"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 g…"

"Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou hast life, while thou art able, be good."

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul, and is not to be sought for from external things."

"Because your life is not a series of unconnected periods, but a single, continuous stream, it is only in the present that you truly live."

"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love what we ought and not to hate what we ought not."