So of cheerfulness, or good temper, the more it is spent the more it remains.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

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