"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."

"If you want to be rich, do not add to your possessions but subtract from your desires."

"If a man has a bad character, he is bad for himself; if he has a good character, he is good for himself."

"Difficulties are things that show what men are."

"As a man, you are a fragment of God; you have within you a part of Him. Why then are you ignorant of your own kinship, or do you not know whence you came?"