“Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.”

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle. I make mistakes but learn from every one.

Your vote will decide which party controls the United States Senate and the direction of our country.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.