"Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power."

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

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from…"

"The universe is a stream of things, a river of events. Some things are born, others die. Some things are in motion, others at rest. Some things are changing, others are constant. Some things are good,…"

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."