Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

After lunch; rest; after dinner walk a mile.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.

Just as female bees gather so much honey little by little that it can fill several pots. Likewise, wise men gather knowledge, religious merit and penance little by little continuously, without ever giving up.