Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

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.

Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization.

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

Don’t make your life complicated. Adapt to every circumstance.

I hated her out of principle

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

We ought not to desire the impossible.

Patience is being at peace with the process of life

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.