All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

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

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.