Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

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.

God knows you very well

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.

Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl, ” her father said, looking worried, “ ‘specially the renegade ones. They’ll turn you every way but loose.

Friends come and go enemies linger.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

What you call love does not sound very beautiful.

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.