Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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

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.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

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

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.