“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

We work to become, not to acquire.

If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

When people are living from passion, they tend to be fulfilled, happy, healthy, and love everyone around them.

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Happiness, where forgiveness unfolds and peace begins.