“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.

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.

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.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

If you don’t find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

If you love something, set it free. And if it really loves you, it will find a way to come back.