“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that...”

“Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”

“f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“The first draught serveth for health the second for pleasure the third for shame and the fourth for madness.”

“Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would every inebriate would if he could.”

“Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt nor his wife a widow.”