We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

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

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

Revenge-seeking minds destroy states, while those seeking reconciliation build nations.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

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

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

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

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

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.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Ignorance never settle a question.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.