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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

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

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.

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them.

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

Honest people don’t hide their deeds.

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn’t long before I set up a lemonade stand.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

When there is no oxygen the muscles become acidic and we can’t perform any more.