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

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... Expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

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

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.

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