Misery loves company.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.