Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Unless you believe you will not understand.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

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

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

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

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.