“If you don’t have consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way.”

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.”

“And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”

“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.”

“Confine yourself to the present.”

“The first step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all.”

“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, ‘This is misfortune,’ but, ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’”

“Nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.”

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”