If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

I seize the moment and create bliss, right now!

If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others.

If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.