All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Life is what we are alive to.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.