Good watch prevents misfortune.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.