Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters—because it’s who you are.

There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people, ' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always, ' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher!

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.