Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.

Some of the worst things in my life never happened.

If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

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.

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

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

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