“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.”

“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”

“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”

“What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. ”

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

“First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do.”