Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

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

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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.

We don’t need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

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.