Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.

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

People seek retreats in the country, by the sea, in the mountains — but you can retire into yourself whenever you choose.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.

-- Seneca

It is the quality of your life that matters, not its length.

-- Seneca

Virtue is a kind of mean.

-- Aristotle

The beginning is half of the whole.

-- Aristotle

I am searching for a human being.

-- Diogenes of Sinope

Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.

-- Democritus