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

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

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

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.

When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

One’s desire, not ability, determines success.

Someone else’s action should not determine your response.