Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Joy is fleeting, whereas true happiness and calm can come to us only after intense pain, when we have confronted ourselves in the mirror of our souls and understood the self.

When death is certain, it is best to sacrifice oneself for a good cause.