The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Now is the accepted time.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

For we that live please must please to live.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

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

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Racial discrimination is not a permissible solution... that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.