The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

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.

If we fail to listen to music, we shall be miserable.

Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.

I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don’t yet have?

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.