The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.

My back slams against the oven door, and I cover my face and cry. I cry so hard I can't breathe.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.