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.

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

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

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

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

Some of the worst things in my life never happened.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.