Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.