The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

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.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

You get used to seeing certain things, and if you don't find a new way to talk about it, then frankly at some point you need to get out of the way.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang.

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.