The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

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.

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.

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

Now is the accepted time.

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.

For we that live please must please to live.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.