Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Aloha is free.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

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.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.