“It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.”

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

The best revenge is not to do as they do.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

The words I speak, the things I do, let them be only, all for you.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

Never lower your target ; increase your actions.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions!

No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.