Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

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.

And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.

I love thee I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.