To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

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

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Aloha is free.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.