“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

No one can lose either the past or the future.

Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.

Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.