"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"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."

"The universe is transformation; life is opinion."

"Soon you'll be ashes or a skeleton. A name at most, or not even a name. But name is sound and echo. The things we want in life are empty, foul, or trivial. Like dogs snapping at each other, or childre…"

"To live each day as if it were thy last, without haste, without sloth, without hypocrisy."