"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly."

"To endure is the first thing that a man must learn if he is to achieve anything, or if he is to live at all."

"The universe is transformation; life is opinion."

"Imagine that you have died and your life has come to an end. Now think about the life you wish you had lived. Live that life now."