Let us assume nothing, and we shall not be moritifed.

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

Any thought that goes against your happiness or progress surely doesn't deserve a space in your mind.

She was feeling something: a tiny pinpoint of feeling. She shifted slightly on the bathroom tiles. No. Surely not. From a book?

There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.