The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

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.

White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.