"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."

"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…"

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

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

"When you have done a good deed and another has received it, why do you still ask for a third thing, as fools do, namely, that you may be thought to have done a good deed or that you may be rewarded?"