Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.

How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?

An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.