“Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.”

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Confine yourself to the present.

Life is opinion.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Do not be ashamed of help.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.

As for my feelings toward “Over the Rainbow”, it’s become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I’m sure that’s why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It’s about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.

No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests.