Inside you is the only lasting place happiness can ever live.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

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

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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 pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.