There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Ignorance never settle a question.