"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"Soon you'll be ashes or a skeleton. A name at most, or not even a name. But name is sound and echo. The things we want in life are empty, foul, or trivial. Like dogs snapping at each other, or childre…"

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

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"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…"