"As a man, you are a fragment of God; you have within you a part of Him. Why then are you ignorant of your own kinship, or do you not know whence you came?"

"To say that 'I will do it tomorrow' is to say that 'I will not do it at all.'"

"If a man is unhappy, this must be due to his own fault, that he does not understand that it is in his power to be happy."

"Remember that you are an actor in a play, and the play is just as the author wishes it to be. If he wants it to be short, it is short; if long, it is long. If he wants you to play a beggar, play him c…"

"Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power."