“You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.”

Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.