This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

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.

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.