Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.

Confine yourself to the present.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness.

The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that.

Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.