You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.