Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.