“Your success and happiness lie in you.”

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.

Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.

The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks as long as you’re happy.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.