Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

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.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

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

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's--eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

We are our choices.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.