Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

No strength within, no respect without.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.