“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minervas tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi t...”

“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.”

“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.”

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”