"Even in a palace, life can be lived well."

"Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's not endurable, then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging."

"The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is all he has and that he cannot lose what he does not possess."