"Serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that he who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort."

"It is a steadfast truth that strive today so that tomorrow may stand upon solid ground."

"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."

"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes."

"I don't know why women feel an affinity with me."