It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

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

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

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

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

. . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.

The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple.

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

Golf is a passion that will stay with me forever. That's all I know.