“The soul is desiring one thing, education is providing something else.”

“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”

“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.”

“Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.”

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

“What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.”

“Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

“The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.”

“Let words proceed as they please, provided only your soul keeps its own sure order, provided your soul is great and holds unruffled to its ideals, pleased with itself on account of the very things which displease others, a soul that makes life the test of its progress, and believes that its knowledge is in exact proportion to its freedom from desire and its freedom from fear.”

“There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe…. The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.”