"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."

"If you want to be a great writer, write great books. If you want to be a great painter, paint great pictures. But if you want to be a great philosopher, be a great human being."

"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?"

"Seek not to have things happen as you wish, but wish things to happen as they do, and you will have peace."

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."