Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

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.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

Our tongues, fluent in lover's kiss.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.

It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.