“Life is opinion.”

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 best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

You always own the option of having no opinion.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road. Unless you fail to make the turn.

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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