"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"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?"

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

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

"The duration of a man's life is but a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure, the course of the body headlong, the soul fickle, fortune uncertain, and fame doubtful."