All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

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

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... The real man.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.