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

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”

“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”